Notting Hill: the quieter alleys
Five streets you never film for Instagram, and one secret mews. Walked and written by the editor. https://walkwalk.org/london/walks/notting-hill-alleys

1. Golborne Road
The other end of Portobello, less photographed, better bread. Lisboa Patisserie at number 57 is the anchor.

2. Trellick Tower base
Erno Goldfinger's brutalist cathedral. Look up from the pavement. It's a concrete argument that buildings are allowed to mean something.

3. Blenheim Crescent bookshops
The Travel Bookshop that inspired the film still exists in spirit if not in name. Book & Kitchen and Books for Cooks are the survivors.

4. Denbigh Close mews
A tiny cul-de-sac of converted stables. Turn in, walk twenty metres, turn out. Do not linger with a camera.

5. Hillgate Village
Two streets of painted terraces in sherbet colours. Farm Place is the one people photograph; Hillgate Street is quieter and nicer.

Notting Hill: the quieter alleys